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December 4, 2022 at 1:05 AM

500 Labor Historians Condemn Biden on Railroads

500 Labor Historians Condemn Biden on Railroads     Aaron Gordon December 2, 2022Vice It’s never good when people who spend their entire professional lives studying the subject say you fucked up. , Gage Skidmore   On Thursday, the Senate passed legislati…

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December 4, 2022 at 1:00 AM

“Their Wealth, Your Misery”: Art and Propaganda in Pandemic Times

“Their Wealth, Your Misery”: Art and Propaganda in Pandemic Times     Isabela Escalona November 23, 2022Workday Magazine The pursuit of political truth is never a one-time arrival point, but rather, something an artist must belabor again and again with each new itera…

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December 4, 2022 at 1:00 AM

Remembering Fred Ross Jr., One of Nation’s Leading Labor and Social Movement Organizers

Remembering Fred Ross Jr., One of Nation’s Leading Labor and Social Movement Organizers     Louis Freedberg November 27, 2022Stansbury Forum “So, fighting and organizing for racial and economic justice is in my DNA,” Ross said on many occasions. He acknowledged that …

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December 4, 2022 at 1:00 AM

How Many More Kids Will Britain Send to War?

How Many More Kids Will Britain Send to War?     Pádraig Ó Meiscill November 30, 2022Red Pepper The Northern Ireland Troubles bill shows the British government learnt nothing from the killing of Aidan McAnespie and the conflict in Ireland For Irish unity march…

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December 3, 2022 at 4:05 AM

Friday Nite Videos | December 2, 2022

Friday Nite Videos | December 2, 2022     December 2, 2022xxxxxx Herschel Walker's Campaign Dealt New Blow. MTG Back on Twitter | Mike Lindell As RNC Chair? How Ticketmaster Is Destroying Live Music. Chronic Lyme Disease: The Quiet Epidemic. Who Paid for Jeff Bezos …

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December 3, 2022 at 3:25 AM

Judge Aileen Cannon’s Reign of Error Is Over

Judge Aileen Cannon’s Reign of Error Is Over     December 2, 2022 The Trump-appointed judge, who tried to do the former president a favor in the Mar-a-Lago affair, received a stern correction from the Eleventh Circuit. Donald Trump, by Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA …

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December 3, 2022 at 3:05 AM

Watch the Disturbing Kanye Interview Clips That Tucker Carlson Didn’t Put On Air

Watch the Disturbing Kanye Interview Clips That Tucker Carlson Didn’t Put On Air     Anna Merlan October 11, 2022Vice Motherboard obtained footage of Ye making bigoted statements about Jewish people and bizarre claims about "fake children," as well as describing visi…

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December 3, 2022 at 3:00 AM

White Nationalists Give Mar-a-Lago Restaurant Disappointing One-Star Reviews on Tripadvisor

White Nationalists Give Mar-a-Lago Restaurant Disappointing One-Star Reviews on Tripadvisor     Andy Borowitz November 29, 2022The New Yorker According to a source close to Trump, the former President was shaken by the one-star reviews. "Florida - Palm Beach: …

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December 3, 2022 at 2:40 AM

Julia Reichert, Oscar-Winning Godmother of Documentaries, Dies

Julia Reichert, Oscar-Winning Godmother of Documentaries, Dies     Kathryn Mobley December 2, 2022WYSO Her films include three Academy Award nominees: "Union Maids," "Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists" (with Jim Klein) and "The Last Truck: Closing of A GM Pl…

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December 3, 2022 at 1:00 AM

In Ukraine

Portside Culture In Ukraine     Beau Beausoleil San Francisco poet Beau Beausoleil reminds us that the war in Ukraine goes on, people are dying, all obscured by political shadows and dubious communications. ,   In Ukraine By Beau Beausoleil I can w…

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December 2, 2022 at 3:10 AM

Putting ‘Profits Over People’, Senate Rejects Paid Sick Leave for Rail Workers

Putting ‘Profits Over People’, Senate Rejects Paid Sick Leave for Rail Workers     Brett Wilkins December 1, 2022Common Dreams "Senate Republicans and Joe Manchin have yet AGAIN failed working Americans by voting down seven days of paid sick leave for rail workers," …

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December 2, 2022 at 2:55 AM

‘The Success Is Inspirational’: The Fight for $15 Movement 10 Years On

‘The Success Is Inspirational’: The Fight for $15 Movement 10 Years On     Steven Greenhouse November 23, 2022The Guardian Federal lawmakers failed to increase the minimum wage, but US workers made other gains, and they are setting their sights on new goals. But acro…

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December 2, 2022 at 2:10 AM

Dismantling Bretton Woods To Pay the Climate Bill

Dismantling Bretton Woods To Pay the Climate Bill     Tina Gerhardt November 25, 2022The Nation Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, has a plan to create a new financial system that would fund climate spending. She put forward the Bridgetown Agenda would susp…

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December 2, 2022 at 1:30 AM

Building Resilient Organizations: Toward Joy and Durable Power in a Time of Crisis

Building Resilient Organizations: Toward Joy and Durable Power in a Time of Crisis     Maurice Mitchell November 29, 2022Convergence To effectively contend with racist, authoritarian forces, our work must be as powerful as possible. Maurice Mitchell unpacks problems …

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December 2, 2022 at 1:00 AM

Tidbits – Dec. 1, 2022 – Reader Comments: Railroad Workers Deserve Sick Days; More Gun Violence; Jewish Divide Over Netanyahu; Readers Debate Ukraine; Thanksgiving Origins; Afterlife of Paris Commune; Fifty Year Tribute to Juan González; More

Tidbits – Dec. 1, 2022 – Reader Comments: Railroad Workers Deserve Sick Days; More Gun Violence; Jewish Divide Over Netanyahu; Readers Debate Ukraine; Thanksgiving Origins; Afterlife of Paris Commune; Fifty Year Tribute to Juan González; More     December 1, 2022xxxxxx …

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December 2, 2022 at 1:00 AM

Staughton Lynd’s Radicalism From Below

Portside Culture Staughton Lynd’s Radicalism From Below     Marcus Rediker November 23, 2022The Nation The historian and activist dedicated his life to showing how, and helping, working people not only imagine but build a better world. Working with his partner …

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December 1, 2022 at 1:35 AM

DeSantis-Backed School Boards Begin Ousting Florida Educators

DeSantis-Backed School Boards Begin Ousting Florida Educators     Andrew Atterbury November 30, 2022Politico New board members in two GOP-leaning counties essentially sacked their school superintendents over the span of one week. Conservative school board cand…

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December 1, 2022 at 1:30 AM

Democrats Were Dithering on Railworkers’ Rights. The Left Just Forced Their Hand.

Democrats Were Dithering on Railworkers’ Rights. The Left Just Forced Their Hand.     Branko Marcetic November 30, 2022Jacobin Democrats were ready to throw railworkers to the wolves, letting even Republicans outflank them on labor rights. But thanks to a last-minute…

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December 1, 2022 at 1:15 AM

Rent Control Expands As Tenants Struggle With the Record-High Cost of Housing

Rent Control Expands As Tenants Struggle With the Record-High Cost of Housing     Jennifer Ludden November 28, 2022NPR "We need universal rent controls in this country, and we actually need the federal government to champion them." Tenant activists from around…

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December 1, 2022 at 1:00 AM

Did Some in Our Federal Police Conspire To Overthrow America?

Did Some in Our Federal Police Conspire To Overthrow America?     Thom Hartmann November 30, 2022The Hartmann Report Was there a conspiracy — even if it only involved a handful of people — at the highest levels of our government to end the American Experiment that wa…

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December 1, 2022 at 1:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – Focus on Latin America

Global Left Midweek – Focus on Latin America     November 30, 2022xxxxxx A great transition in our hemisphere, and a labor action news roundup The political map today. Credit, Courthouse News Service   The Number One Issue La Lucha Sigue: Abortion Rights…

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November 30, 2022 at 1:50 AM

Beware Corporate Democrats “Passing the Torch”

Beware Corporate Democrats “Passing the Torch”     Norman Solomon November 29, 2022Common Dreams Congressman Hakeem Jeffries is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, but that affiliation for the heir apparent to the current House Speaker should not be tak…

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November 30, 2022 at 1:45 AM

COVID-19 in China and Global Concern

COVID-19 in China and Global Concern     Katelyn Jetelina November 29, 2022Your Local Epidemiologist It’s clear that the ever-stricter measures in China are failing to keep up with more-transmissible variants while becoming increasingly costly to society. This has ca…

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November 30, 2022 at 1:45 AM

The Culture Workers Go on Strike

The Culture Workers Go on Strike     Alissa Quart November 29, 2022The New Republic From the New School to museums and book publishers, we’re witnessing the black-turtleneck-worker uprising. Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis/Getty Images Part-time faculty members, ac…

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November 30, 2022 at 1:45 AM

Progressives in Congress Begin To Push Back Against Biden Betrayal of Rail Workers

Progressives in Congress Begin To Push Back Against Biden Betrayal of Rail Workers     Jake Johnson November 29, 2022Common Dreams "What we're seeing is an inhumane deal being pushed onto workers even after a majority voted it down," said Rep. Jamaal Bowman Pr…

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November 30, 2022 at 1:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – November 29, 2022

Media Bits and Bytes – November 29, 2022     November 29, 2022xxxxxx Twitter SNAFUs, and more reports from MSM and cyberworld Credit, Nicholas Konrad / The New Yorker   A Progressive News Network Fox News’s Crime Wave Goes Poof   Twitter Litter Can Deepf…

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November 30, 2022 at 1:00 AM

‘Nanny’ Employs African Folklore in a Haunting Black Horror Film

Portside Culture ‘Nanny’ Employs African Folklore in a Haunting Black Horror Film     Pilar Galvan November 23, 2022NPR While recent films in the Black horror genre have presented the terrifying realities of being Black in America, Nanny is rooted in the specif…

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November 29, 2022 at 6:25 AM

New York Democrats Didn’t Defend Their Bail Law Changes. It Bit Them at the Polls.

New York Democrats Didn’t Defend Their Bail Law Changes. It Bit Them at the Polls.     Anna Gronewold November 27, 2022Politico Republicans across the country campaigned on crime. Nowhere did it resonate more than in New York. Kathy Hochul speaks to supporters…

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November 29, 2022 at 3:05 AM

On Giving Tuesday: New Challenges for the Left

On Giving Tuesday: New Challenges for the Left     xxxxxx Moderators November 28, 2022xxxxxx Once in a while, we – the volunteer moderators of xxxxxx – take the opportunity to talk directly to us – the entire xxxxxx community – about how we see things and how you can…

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November 29, 2022 at 1:05 AM

Why a New Special Counsel’s Trump Investigations Won’t Be Like the Mueller Probe

Why a New Special Counsel’s Trump Investigations Won’t Be Like the Mueller Probe     Ari Shapiro November 25, 2022NPR NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Andrew Weissmann, a former senior prosecutor on the Robert Mueller probe, about what's next for the special counsel on t…

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November 29, 2022 at 1:05 AM

Amazon Workers Walk Off the Job on the Biggest Shopping Day of the Year

Amazon Workers Walk Off the Job on the Biggest Shopping Day of the Year     Kara Voght November 25, 2022Rolling Stone Amazon warehouse workers have walked off the job on Friday which is one of the busiest shopping days of the year to demand higher wages and better wo…

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November 29, 2022 at 1:00 AM

Media Misled on Issues Important to Midterm Voters

Media Misled on Issues Important to Midterm Voters     David Moore November 23, 2022FAIR The real problem with the 2022 news coverage is not that it was off target, but rather that “prognostication-as-reporting is utterly dysfunctional.” Fox (11/1/22) greatly …

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November 29, 2022 at 1:00 AM

Farm Workers Push for Congressional Action During Lame Duck Session

Farm Workers Push for Congressional Action During Lame Duck Session     Rebekah Entralgo November 23, 2022Inequality.org A delegation of farm workers lobbied Congress ahead of the holiday weekend to pass legislation that would provide a pathway to citizenship for tho…

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November 29, 2022 at 1:00 AM

The Fakelore of Food Origins

Portside Culture The Fakelore of Food Origins     Ashawnta Jackson November 22, 2022JSTOR Food history is replete with honored legends, creative stories, slightly twisted truths, unsupported claims, leaps of faith, and outright lies. Actually most new dishes ar…

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November 28, 2022 at 7:45 AM

RSV and the Flu Are Straining Health Care Systems

RSV and the Flu Are Straining Health Care Systems     Rebecca S.B. Fischer, Annette Regan November 18, 2022The Conversation Two Epidemiologists Explain What the ‘Triple Threat’ Means for Children Pediatric emergency rooms in some states are at or over capacity…

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November 28, 2022 at 5:50 AM

Why Saudi Arabia Is So Quiet About Iran’s Protests

Why Saudi Arabia Is So Quiet About Iran’s Protests     Kim Ghattas November 24, 2022The Atlantic The kingdom’s rulers may have managed their own social pressures better, but they’re wary of the tumult that’s shaking their neighbor. , Getty; The Atlantic …

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November 28, 2022 at 5:15 AM

The Life and Afterlife of the Paris Commune.

The Life and Afterlife of the Paris Commune.     David A. Bell November 15, 2022The Nation The life and afterlife of the Paris Commune. Paris Commune, 1871., Getty Images   We generally don’t see Paris as a city scarred by war. It is not like London and …

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November 28, 2022 at 4:00 AM

One Day of Warren Buffett Wealth Gains Could Fund 15 Days of Paid Sick Leave for Rail Workers

One Day of Warren Buffett Wealth Gains Could Fund 15 Days of Paid Sick Leave for Rail Workers     Jake Johnson November 25, 2022Common Dreams "Buffett could avert a rail strike today by giving workers what they need: paid sick days," said Sen. Bernie Sanders' staff d…

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November 28, 2022 at 3:40 AM

Industrial Policy Without Industrial Unions

Industrial Policy Without Industrial Unions     Lee Harris September 28, 2022The American Prospect Democrats’ new industrial manufacturing plan leaves unions behind, fumbling a moment of relative leverage for organized labor. , Illustration by Robert Meganck …

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November 28, 2022 at 1:00 AM

It’s Been a Helluva Year, Tuesday Is Giving Tuesday

Portside Culture It’s Been a Helluva Year, Tuesday Is Giving Tuesday     Portside Moderator November 27, 2022Portside Once in a while, we – the volunteer moderators of Portside – take the opportunity to talk directly to us – the entire Portside community – abou…

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November 28, 2022 at 1:00 AM

‘Andor’ Soared — It Was About the Force, Not the Force, of the Star Wars Universe

Portside Culture ‘Andor’ Soared — It Was About the Force, Not the Force, of the Star Wars Universe     Glen Weldon November 23, 2022NPR Andor showed the growing discontent and anger that gives rise to heroes. In many different ways, for their own individual rea…

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November 27, 2022 at 1:05 AM

Rebellion Against the Legalized Robbery

Rebellion Against the Legalized Robbery     Yanis Varoufakis November 21, 2022Socialist Project My focus shall be on what we can do, as activists, to help translate humanity’s remaining capacities into the necessary praxes, into the collective actions that will permi…

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November 27, 2022 at 1:05 AM

ANC Crisis May Foreshadow Its Demise

ANC Crisis May Foreshadow Its Demise     Raymond Suttner November 21, 2022Daily Maverick The ANC now signifies dishonourable conduct. It is habituated to preying on the poor, manifested in defrauding funds intended for the needs of the impoverished majority. It may n…

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November 27, 2022 at 1:00 AM

Politicians in Colorado Springs Chose Flouting Gun Laws Over People’s Lives

Politicians in Colorado Springs Chose Flouting Gun Laws Over People’s Lives     Tim Miller November 22, 2022xxxxxx + The Club Q shooter had threatened his family and told police he would kill them, too. El Paso County politicians refused to use their state's red-flag…

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November 27, 2022 at 1:00 AM

Peace in Rome

Peace in Rome     Roberto Morea , Roberto Musacchio November 18, 2022Transform! Europe We held a massive pacifist rally for a diplomatic solution in Europe, where warmongering rages among the ruling classes. With radical rightists in government and a dismal centre-le…

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November 27, 2022 at 1:00 AM

Ideas, Including Foolish Ones, Have Consequences

Ideas, Including Foolish Ones, Have Consequences     Walden Bello November 22, 2022Foreign Policy in Focus The intellectual godfathers of the “alt right” and their descendants are on a fool’s errand: to rationalize irrational hatreds. Oswald Spengler's "The De…

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November 26, 2022 at 1:45 AM

Friday Nite Videos | November 25, 2022

Friday Nite Videos | November 25, 2022     November 25, 2022xxxxxx Howard Zinn and Voices of a People’s History. Qatar World Cup | John Oliver. The Torch | The Story of Buddy Guy. The Global Movement To Restore Nature's Biodiversity. Fox News Finally Abandons Trump.…

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November 26, 2022 at 1:15 AM

‘The US Can Still Become a Fascist Country’: Frances Fox Piven’s Midterms Postmortem

‘The US Can Still Become a Fascist Country’: Frances Fox Piven’s Midterms Postmortem     Ed Pilkington November 24, 2022Guardian While many observers have breathed a sigh of relief over the rout of extreme election deniers endorsed by Trump, and his seemingly deflate…

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November 26, 2022 at 1:15 AM

How Young Climate Activists Built a Mass Movement To Be Reckoned With

How Young Climate Activists Built a Mass Movement To Be Reckoned With     Nick Engelfried November 15, 2022Waging Nonviolence Even more important than the decisions of the UN climate talks are the next steps of a youth-led movement strengthened by two decades of tran…

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November 26, 2022 at 1:10 AM

The Case for Supreme Court Term Limits Just Got a Lot Better

The Case for Supreme Court Term Limits Just Got a Lot Better     Jamelle Bouie November 22, 2022New York Times What if lifetime tenure, rather than raising the barriers to corruption, makes it easier to influence the court by giving interested parties the time and s…

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